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toctia.

Headword: 
toctia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take someone or something as something to hide behind

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.

IPAspelling: 
toktiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

toctia. nic. (pret. onictocti.) fortificar vna cosa con otra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

toctia. nitla. (pret. onitlatocti.) doblar cordel, o hilo o hazerlo mas gordo o poner rodrigones alas vides, o cosa assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

toctia. nicno. (pret. onicnotocti.) esconderse, o ampararse detras de algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TOCTIĀ vrefl,vt to hide or shelter oneself behind something or someone, to reside with or accompany someone, to put something under the protection of someone / esconderse o ampararse detrás de algo (M), se aloja con él, se acompaña (T), fortificar una cosa con otra (M), le encarga con el otro (T) [(8)Tp.171,212,(2)Zp.50,198). caus. TOCATOCTILIĀ applic. TOCTIĀ. TOCTĪLŌ nonact. TOCTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 243.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nicno. Class 3: ōnicnotoctih. analysis unclear. looks like a form based on a noun stem toc- with tia2.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.